Organization:
At CommBank, we're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team: Retail Technology
Impact & Contribution: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Full Cycle Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, testing, and automation, with a passion for DevOps and a systematic approach to solving complex problems. This role requires excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, experience in leading teams, and a deep understanding of the infrastructure that runs .NET applications
Behavioral Competencies
Self-driven and proactive: Takes initiative, identifies opportunities for improvement, and delivers outcomes with minimal supervision.
Comfortable with ambiguity: Able to navigate evolving requirements, make pragmatic decisions with incomplete information, and help shape technical direction.
Fast learner: Quickly acquires new technologies, tools, and domain knowledge, adapting effectively to changing priorities.
Curious and inquisitive: Actively seeks to understand how systems work, challenges assumptions, and continuously looks for better ways of solving problems.
Accountable and outcome-focused: Takes ownership of commitments, follows through on delivery, and is accountable for the quality, reliability, and operational success of solutions.
Team player: Collaborates effectively across engineering, product, platform, and business teams while contributing to a positive engineering culture.
Essential Skills:
Application Development
7+ years of hands on strong experience building modern web applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js.
Ideally a full-stack engineer with experience developing backend services using C#/.NET Core.
Strong understanding of RESTful API design, implementation, and integration.
Experience building scalable, maintainable, and well-tested software.
Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across distributed systems.
Cloud & DevOps
Experience working with AWS, particularly (ECS ,Application Load Balancers, Aurora PostgreSQL, CloudWatch ,Lambda
Experience with Docker and containerised application development.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions.
Strong troubleshooting skills using application logs, metrics, and observability platforms such as Observe or similar.
AI Engineering (Highly Regarded)
Exposure to modern AI engineering practices is highly desirable, including:
AI Agents and agentic workflows
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Prompt engineering
AI-assisted software development
Developer productivity tools powered by AI
Additional Platform Engineering Knowledge (Desirable)
While this role is primarily focused on software engineering, we value engineers who have an interest in platform engineering and are willing to develop operational and infrastructure capabilities as required.
DevSecOps & Security
Good understanding of DevSecOps practices and secure software delivery.
Exposure to vulnerability management tools such as Wiz, and Snyk
Platform & Architecture
Understanding of modern cloud platform concepts including:
High availability architectures
Resilient and fault-tolerant systems
Scalability and performance optimisation
Operational excellence and production support
Education Qualification:
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of hands-on software development experience with .NET and React
- Hands-on experience with Next.js, React, or Angular
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud technologies
- Design and implement microservices architecture and RESTful APIs
- Experience leading teams
- Experience with CI/CD toolsets and pipelines (GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Jenkins, Bamboo, Artifactory, Octopus Deploy)
- Operate and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and integrated automated testing
- Automate tasks using Python, shell scripting, and PowerShell
- Develop test automation frameworks and experience as a software engineer in test
- Experience with API and web services testing (Postman, Bruno) and REST/SOAP/XML
- Experience with test automation tools (LeanFT, Selenium, Appium)
- Proven experience in test strategy, risk-based prioritization, and CI/CD-focused test automation
- Experience with service virtualization and containerization in integrated enterprise environments
- Knowledge of infrastructure that runs .NET/cloud apps: IIS, Web Servers, Kestrel, Containers
- Implement and maintain logging and monitoring (CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Splunk, Observe, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Detailed understanding of software development and testing practices such as TDD and BDD
- Proven experience with Agile development, Scrum, and supporting tools (JIRA, Confluence, GitHub)
- Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology
- Experience working with IVR testing, preferably Genesys
Commonwealth Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Commonwealth Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Commonwealth Bank.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The bank offers additional Life Leave, the option to purchase up to four extra weeks, pet leave, and paid volunteering leave alongside flexible-working options. Public materials indicate these leave features compare well within Australian banking.
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Parental & Family Support — Permanent employees can access up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave, and superannuation is paid for up to 34 weeks of unpaid parental leave. These provisions extend support for new parents beyond standard settings.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Access includes CBHS Health Fund, Fitness Passport, a 24/7 wellbeing platform with telehealth, an Employee Assistance Program, and employer‑paid income protection for up to two years, alongside staff banking perks and share plans. This combination provides day‑to‑day value across health, protection, and financial perks.
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What We Do
Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services. We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances.
